Saturday, May 29, 2010

COMMENTS: Once again, the sweet fruit of first place tantalizes us, but the reward will be hard fought. Kuroda is the Dodgers' most consistent starter, but Coors Field promises to be a Cold-Activated Battle. "In his only previous Coors Field start, he was pushed around for five runs in six innings. In four career starts against the Rockies, Kuroda is 0-2 with a 6.94 ERA," Dodgers.com tells us.

Meanwhile, only a Dodgers win combined with a Padres loss to the Nationals will make this a first-place Saturday night, but the Nationals are basically flipping a coin to decide which of two Triple-A pitchers will start for them. Why couldn't they start Stephen Strasburg a little earlier?

You know when you had to give an oral book report in 7th grade, and no one wanted to go first? And the teacher would try to coax someone into going forst by saying that people who started out could just get it over with and not have to worry about it any more.

So maybe with GA toward the top, we can just get his at-bat out of the way and not have to worry about it any more.

@karina I wish I hadn't read it either. At first I was angry then sick to my stomach. I can't figure out if I'm sick because he hit her or because the thought of a woman going to a hotel room with him is so gross

They're overpaid for their announcing- At least homer announcers make little pretense of their bias, these guys are the future 76'er coach and an ex-Knicks announcer, they could at least try to seem less partial.